Hurricane Isaias brought widespread cellular outages to the Southeast. Major news channels publicly thanked AT&T and Starlink for their mobile disaster response teams and getting a cellular network up and running for those impacted by the storm. No mention of Verizon. Is this because of cutbacks and reductions.
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News stations here in Georgia mentioned Verizon as the only responder.
@ap Verizon runs from a crisis under Dan.
AT&T has FEMA contract now. Verizon lost it.
Public Sector is gone except for Kim and Patty. LOL. Maggie retired and would handle this, it wasn't PR.
Our Media Response team that handles stuff like this were let go. It's now all millennials that have weekends off and rely AI to tell them what happened.
So much for “We run to a Crisis”.
In 2014 they sent techs from California to Texas and Florida. How do I know? I was one of them. Drove a line truck across country to help in Florida recovery. Was there 2 months. That was 12 years ago not 20.
It's been like 20 years since they sent any techs out of state to help after a disaster. I know they're referring to wireless but they obviously haven't cared in a long time.